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Chapter 10
Social Psychology
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Why Do We Conform?
1) Normative Social Influence: we want to be liked by others.
2) Informational Social Influence: cues from others.
Group Think -
Titanic 1912
Challenger Disaster 1986
The Holocaust
Bethlehem Steel
Compliance (10.2)
Compliance - a change of behavior as a result of another person or group asking
or directing the change
Obedience (10.3)
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Results of Milgram
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Ethical issues
Long term effect of participants
The era in which the study was performed? (60s stronger respect for
authority figures)
Components of Attitude
Persuasion
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Social categorization
Assigning other to a number of categories
Drawing conclusions about what that person is likely to do
(making predictions of other behavior)
Primary Effect: first impression persists over time in spite of new
information.
Attribution
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Attribution Theory (Fritz Heider 1958): explanation of why things happen and
why people choose the explanations of behavior that they do.
Attribution Theory
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If you are late for class, you are going to attribute that to: my car
didnt start, the road was closed, my alarm didnt go off, I forgot
my homework
If the other person is late, you are going to attribute that to:
person being a horrible teacher, its
Actor observer bias because we are the actor not the observer.
Stereotype Vulnerability
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Equal status contact: all the same situation with neither group
holding power
Robert Sternberg
3 Main Components of Love
Types of loves as a result of combinations of components (different than
combinations)
o Passion
o Intimacy
o Commitment
Aggression (10.13)
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Our attitudes
Our reactions
Both physical and emotional
Define: unique ways in which each individual thinks, acts, and feels
throughout life.
Perspectives of Personality
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4)
Psychodynamic
Behaviorist
Humanistic
Trait
Psychodynamic
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Psychodynamic
1) ID
2) Ego
3) Superego
Psychodynamic Freud
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ID (the child)
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Executive director
Results in the need to deal with reality
Mostly conscious
Rational logical cunning
Reality principle: satisfying the needs of the ID only in way that
will not lead to negative consequences
Sometimes denies the ID what it wants
Superego: (morality)
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Psychodynamic Freud
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Next time you go out to eat: Pick a couple or family. At least 2 or more
people. That you can see or observe, but you cant hear them. Think
about what is happening between transpiring in that situation. Are they
friends, are they enemies, are they related. Does one do love the other?
Our projection experiment.
Psychodynamic Neo-Freudians
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Carl Jung
Adler
Erikson
Neo-Freudians
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Carl Jung
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Alfred Adler
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Erik Erikson
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Behaviorist Perspective
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Albert Bandura
Julian Rotter
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Subjective emotions
Freedom to choose our own destiny
Elements that make us uniquely human
Humans are always striving to fulfill their innate capabilities to achieve
their full potential
Self-Actualizing Tendency
o giblet: Rodgers saw it on a human level, everyone is capable to
reach their full potential and they possess all the resources to do
so, we all have our own answers.
o giblet: Maslow believed it on a spiritual level.
Self-Concept
Positive Regard
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Rodgers
Relationships
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Trait Theory
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16PF
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Raymond Cattell
Richard Lazarus
Cognitive Mediational Theory of Emotions
How we think about or appraise the stressor major factor in how
stressful the event actually is for us
Primary appraisal: estimating the severity of the stressor
giblet: high
the first time but starts to dwindle after repetition
Secondary appraisal: estimation of the resources available to us
Personality Types
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Type A tightly wound, high pressure, everything has the same severity
level.
dysfunction
History: bloodletting drilling of holes in skulls spirit possession
Now: Medical Model Approach: Diagnosis and Treatment (most effective
approach): psychological disorders
What is Abnormal?
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Biological Model
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View Points
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Psychodynamic
Behaviorism
Sociocultural
Biopsychological
Pros: Keeps doctors and therapists honest, gives a structured protocol and
a guideline
DX (Diagnosis)
1) Onset - starting point of behavior
2) Frequency how often are we seeing the behavior that we are seeing
3) Antecedents - what came before this behavior, trying to find the baseline of
personality and behavior all the responsibilities you do now, the current
state of how you act
4) Intensity - how severe are the symptoms we are seeing
5) Duration - how long its been occurring, you have to meet a certain
duration of symptoms*
Rule Out Component: not contributed to an organic cause, illness, drugs,
or anything else
*you have to see those symptoms over a period of time, they might not meet
criteria
Giblet: If its in the DSM4 but still in the DSM5, is it still there? yes
*the patient themselves does not see their behavior as an issue in mental
health
Dissociative Disorders
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Mood Disorders
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Medication compliance stabilize the patient on medication, they feel better, then
they still stop taking the medication
Eating Disorders
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Anorexia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa
Schizophrenia
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Symptoms
On-set male, early 20s
Causes
Giblet: Prevalence is very low, bipolar and major depressive is top 2
Personality Disorders
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Antisocial
Borderline very black or white, all or nothing i.e. I love you or I hate
you
o lots of broken relationships
Review Notes
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Only throw things in the book that I required, that I talked about. May test
you on a section I did go over, if I gave you the numbers from section. I
want you to know the section.
Classical Conditioning: will be one of the essays, wont be in the multiple
choice or true/false